Do you remember being required to say that when you were done with dinner as a kid? (We might not have had to say “please”. . . it isn’t sounding familiar to me, but with that degree of rudeness, why was permission even required? Never mind.) The Redwood & Dogwood painting might be finished. The […]
Tricky Business on the Oak Grove Bridge
The Oak Grove Bridge on the Mineral King Road is my favorite subject to draw and paint, except when it isn’t. I’ve been inching along on this painting for months. The angle is unusual, the details are hard to see, and the colors are somewhat difficult to discern, all of it making for tricky business. […]
Early Season in White Chief Canyon
Trail Guy’s favorite place to hike is White Chief. Mine too. I wasn’t there for this hike, but he graciously and eagerly shared his photos with me to share with you. Today’s painting is for sale:
Slow Middle
Happy Birthday, Lauren!! After a quick start on the redwood and dogwood painting (redwoods are Sequoia Giganteas, Sequoia being the source of the name for Sequoia National Park), it was time to do my usual slow, careful, meticulous, thoughtful detailing. (Is this painting better or painting the same as I always do??) Want to buy […]
Getting Started
The commissioned oil painting combining two Tulare County scenes feels like a mini-mural. 18×24″ is HUGE when I am accustomed to 8×10″ or 6×18″. Often I have pondered why it is that a mural feels sort of easy because of its large size when a large oil painting feels daunting. Is it the number of […]
Further Figuring Out
This is Chapter Two in the story of figuring out how to design one commissioned oil painting of two different Tulare County landmarks. As a Tulare County artist, I am pleased to have been chosen for the task. The customer requested a different view of Homer’s Nose, and I have 5 photos from that point […]
Figuring Things Out
Isn’t “figuring things out” a strange grouping of words? But we all know what that means. . . puzzling over something, trial and error, plan A and plan B, lots of conversation. . . A long time friend asked me to do an oil painting of two significant Tulare County landmarks in her life. This […]
Mineral King 2018
Opening weekend in Mineral King in 2018 was cold, drizzly, foggy and not conducive to any photos. Besides, my camera battery was dead. The skies cleared briefly on Sunday evening. I borrowed Trail Guy’s camera for this: Monday was glorious, sunny, bright, and warm(ish). I took this from our friend’s porch Finally, here is the […]
Quick Start
After a recent trip to Sequoia National Park to see the dogwood in bloom, I had a desire to paint them with a redwood tree in the background. The printed photos hadn’t yet arrived, so why not paint while looking at the computer screen? Then I began thinking about my “Paint Better” and “Sell More […]
Sit On It
Have you heard that thing “Sitting is the new smoking”? Hogwash. Been thinking about chairs recently. My cabin neighbors are replacing some living room furniture, and it would be awful if their old pieces went to the dump. My couch needs recovering, so why not cover theirs from the ’40s and dump mine from […]